Example sentences of "[pron] becomes [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose in one way as a pensioner I shall say what happens about you know I 'm not worried about if you 're a pensioner because every time one someone becomes a deferred pensioner , our surplus goes up |
| 2 | Now if you 're if somebody becomes a persistent discounter first of all they 'll they 'll question it back at head office . |
| 3 | It was not natural in Shakespeare 's day for parents to kneel to their offspring so when his children try to gain authority over him Lear is so enraged he goes mad and the outer conflict between Regan , Goneril and himself becomes an inner struggle for his sanity . |
| 4 | In anorexia nervosa , which becomes a living death , the same connections are prevalent , together with the same confusing implications . |
| 5 | The one surprising tempo on this disc is that of the minuet , marked Allegretto by Haydn but here taken very smartly , faster , in fact , than the Allegro minuet of No. 102 : if the music sounds less massively symphonic than it can ( sf accents are again a touch comfortable ) it has an engaging spring , especially the trio , which becomes a one-in-a-bar waltz rather than a Ländler . |
| 6 | This sequence is repeated again and again with different emphases , suggesting that the novel is constantly reenacting a threshold experience which becomes a powerful metaphor of its own formal nature . |
| 7 | Thus , if the index starts with a base figure of 100 in , say , January 1984 and rises to 300 by September 1990 , the index may be recalculated from October 1990 onwards by reference to the figure shown in the index for September 1990 , which becomes the new base figure of 100 . |
| 8 | This enhanced sense may derive from the deft , alert response of the musicians to David Lloyd-Jones 's direction , and certainly owes much to the magic of Jack Gibbons 's playing , which becomes the focal point of this performance . |
| 9 | By aspiring to the attributes and privileges of the dominant class , she becomes a double deviant : female , to be sure , but refusing the constraints of the ascribed status ’ ( 1975 : 53 ) . |
| 10 | She slips on a bright red party dress and she becomes a fun teenager . |
| 11 | But Jodi , a Rhodes scholar , will get her chance later this month , when she becomes the first woman to turn out for the men in the annual varsity match against Cambridge . |
| 12 | She becomes an unmistakable symbol for all the courageous daughters of faithless fathers . |
| 13 | David Lynch has optioned D M Thomas ' story of Freud , a woman and Russia , The White Hotel , and has a more obviously Lynchian novel in development , Delacorta 's Vida , about a 16-year-old who becomes a private eye just as someone starts shooting the architects of America . |
| 14 | The other two were The Citadel ( 1938 ) , from A. J. Cronin 's novel about a once-idealistic doctor who becomes a cynical practitioner to the upper classes until the death of his friend on the operating table leads to a revival of his old principles , and Goodbye Mr Chips ( 1939 ) , a hymn to the glories of the English public school . |
| 15 | Christopher Lambert stars as cold-hearted chess grandmaster Peter Sanderson who becomes a serial-killer suspect . |
| 16 | John Theakston , finance director , is replacing joint managing director Derek Ridout , who becomes a non-executive director . |
| 17 | I 'd like to show a civilised man who turns barbarian , and a barbarian who becomes a civilised man — to develop that contrast between two worlds that end up merging … |
| 18 | Other Carlton programmes to look out for include Head Over Heels , ( Jan 11 ) , a seven-part Fifties rock and roll drama featuring rebellious leather-jacketed teenager Camilla de la Mer who becomes the latest pupil at the Gracie Ellis Academy of Elegance . |
| 19 | 15 ( 11 ) CALIFORNIA MAN : Comedy about a prehistoric man who becomes the trendiest guy in a modern high school . |
| 20 | It affects not only who becomes an unpaid carer but also is relevant to two other dimensions of this issue : who receives care , and what kind of support is given . |
| 21 | Winona Ryder is the reluctant member of the elite ‘ Heathers ’ crowd who becomes an unwitting murderess after hooking up with the new boy at school , rough diamond Christian Slater — giving his best Jack Nicholson impersonation . |
| 22 | One becomes a privileged member of the tribe . |
| 23 | alone , it becomes a sad reflection of what has been . |
| 24 | A firm tap on the hindquarters , accompanied by ‘ no ’ and ‘ bed ’ if appropriate , depending on the room , should put a stop to this destructive behaviour before it becomes a serious problem . |
| 25 | I think that we look very favourably on schemes whereby an education process is involved erm where there are workshops and performance , but it becomes a total package in itself — it 's not just a performance for an ethnic minority , but it 's one that represents the fact that we live in a multi-cultural society itself . |
| 26 | In effect , Barth simultaneously reworks texts and multiplies the dimensions to LETTERS so that it becomes a protean work , constantly shifting resemblances . |
| 27 | Let us say that we decide to change the ‘ unit-points ’ allocated to the Basic category of ‘ status ’ in the modules from 8 to 6 , it becomes a simpler matter in the TNF module . |
| 28 | Too easily it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy : ‘ We ca n't expect the majority of students to do very well — so do n't blame us for the failures . ’ |
| 29 | And once this kind of polarization is set in motion , it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy in which everyone who is not with us is against us . |
| 30 | If semantics is modified to take account of deixis , it becomes a context-conditional semantics , and the boundary between semantics and pragmatics becomes very blurred . |